For All Mankind really said that the heiress, aeronautical engineer, pilot, and astronaut was gonna be a lesbian named Ellen Waverly. And that she was gonna be played by the beautiful Jodi Balfour.

Haha, right, the Mrs. Bennet part of me that’s still like HOW many pounds a year? was all swooning at that whole buildup. That FBI agent should write her bio. “First of all, your mom is from New York old money. Then your dad makes a ton of more money. A pilot as a teen, MIT, aeronautical engineer, astronaut. You have the pedigree, the money, the brains, the looks. So why do you, literal perfect woman, want to be with…a gay?” And she’s ours. :>

I actually wish we’d see some of her home life, actually. Are her parents supportive? Proud? What about pressure to marry? Did she work harder on a career so she’d have an excuse and an alternative to romance? But I feel like the more of THAT we find out, it’s because it’s going to hurt even more than what we’re already seeing.

I finished my rewatch but ended up fastforwarding a lot of sergio Bc I really cannot stand him lol. Maybe I’ll have to go back w more patience at some point. It WAS a total gutpunch when it happened back then, i remember everyone was attacking the person who spoiled it on twitter Bc no one thought the show would go that route after how good it’d been, but I’m glad I listened to that person Bc it happened! My rewatch reaffirmed that it was such a stupid choice at that point in the narrative 1/2

Like???? Val had made it thru everything without backsliding to Lucho. Juliana had not felt the need to experiment w sergio when she realized she was falling for Val. Neither gay panicked after they had sex. Juliana stuck up to Lupe AND moved out Bc she wouldn’t deny her love for Valentina. And after aLL THAT I’m supposed to believe she went & fucked sergio?? Nah. Unnecessary. Esp disgusting that it was sergio, who treated Juliana like shit & was stalkery. Also was childhood “friends” w Val 2/2

Yeah, I didn’t want to believe it but it seemed too obvious from what was being set up, sadly. And once the screenshots were up, well. 

At the time, I was hoping they’d pull out something…educational, at least? But like, they didn’t even use it to cause enough drama for the relationship? Maybe that’s also because the show packed so much into the last quarter, everything happening at once, nothing really being dealt with at length, which I hear is a thing in the genre.

But you know, for me, it’s such a long time ago, I’ve just put it all aside and focused on everything else. It wasn’t nearly enough to ruin the ship or experience for me. It’s weird how small a thing it was in the show, like, yes, for us it was huge and impossible to ignore, but to the characters, the way they all handled it, it was practically forgotten by everyone in the space of days. I mean, yes, a kidnapping and the violent death of a fellow 20ish-year-old is enough to make you shift perspective, but that’s kind of the point too, right, the show had all that going on and just added this. I dunno. It’s not something I dwell on but it was definitely my least favorite part of their story.